About the Website's History and Creation

SiRTHUNDER516 is the online alias of a kid, me, named Nick that lives in southeastern Michigan. I was born in 1995, and I've been exposed to computers since then. Aside from Legos and Hot Wheel cars, I basically grew up on computer games. My earliest memories of computers are this set of Mickey games for DOS, Word Rescue Shareware for DOS, Kid Pix 1.0, and the blue screen of death. I've always held a fascination with the old, the obsolete, and the forgotten. I remember when I was eight or so and we had upgraded to Windows XP, I asked if we could downgrade because I liked the blocky feel of Windows 98 and the gray task bar better than the colorful Windows XP interface. Well, anyways, somewhere around sixth grade, I created my first website on Webs.com, back then it was freewebs.com, and I started my first "website". It wasn't much, just some information about Legos, Pokemon, and Nerf guns, but hey, I was d*mn proud of it. This got me really interested in web design, and on January 18th of 2010, the original Retro Nugget Development site (retronugget.webs.com) was born! The original Retro Nugget Dev site was really only for our custom iPhone themes, that's all we had made back then. It was a small site, but it served it's purpose for a little while. Of course, that didn't last for long. Webs.com sucks as a web hosting company. They block their users from uploading files with the extentions .html, .exe, .zip, and others, forcing us (Rudis825 and me) to use deprecated or uncommon formats. Also, their support team is the worst user experience that I have ever encountered. It's like talking to a monkey! So, anyways, I did some research, and poked around "Teh Interwebs" and guess what, I was offered, by a friend, some *almost* free webspace! Cool! I did that and set that up, so only a few months later on March 15, 2010, we had a "real" domain with lots of space, bandwidth, and support for things like PHP. I felt a little overwhelmed, because now I could expand my site to include many awesome things like videos and a Cydia/Rock repository. So this is how our website sits now. It's fresh, new, and it's future is a complete mystery. Rudis825 and I are both involved in many projects; he, mainly graphical; me, more programming projects. Who knows where this site will go? Will it become just an iPhone theme site? Will it become the ultimate DOS/Windows 3.x resource site? Will it simply be forgotten about, like so many other sites created by other teenagers in other fields? All we can do is move along, and give this website the care and work that it needs!